At which point, you're (basically) using C - again.

No, C++.

Rust like C++ has a powerful type system which you can use to enforce a whole bunch of stuff, automate away error prone, repetitive code and so on and so forth.

C and C++ are not the same language. Compared to C, Rust also gives you a ton of useful language stuff that's been developed in the last 60 years or so. This means not writing by hand tons and tons and tons of code you can get the compiler to write for you. That's less code to debug which means fewer bugs.

It also gives you better expressiveness to model the domain in the type system which again leads to shorter, less buggy code which is also more obvious.

Compared to C++: you don't generally IIUC wrap all rust code in unsafe blocks, which means the majority of the code has been verified free of some types of error which are very easy to make in C and moderately easy to make in C++. If you write all your code as unsafe and make use of that by bashing away at pointers, yeah there's not a significant difference (to C++, but still a bi improvement over C). But why would you do that?

It has a SINGLE pair of boards, duh.

You said fuck it and voted for the reality show host with bankrupt casinos.

With bankrupt casinos AND dementia.

You can tell people are rationalizing of course, because basically all of the arguments against Biden also applied to Trump but not Harris. But someone when Biden withdrew, Harris's laugh was a more important issue on the national level than the President having serious cognitive decline.

And for what, so you yo-yos can get money for nothing and your chicks for free?

I've got a daytime job and I'm doing alright.

How nice for you and the other guy.

We were both fans. But allegedly it had a low number of tens of millions of users, but then firefox has a decent number of tens, so the percentages weren't terrible.

It's a collecting information about your activity service. It's not for you, it's for them.

yeah yeah if you're not paying you're the product yada yada.

Cool. But it was also useful to me. The bookmarking and tagging was very useful. The recommended articles were really good. And I shouldn't use it because?

I mean yeah, but everyone knows which are the good universities and which aren't.

The Mozilla foundation has pissed away tens of millions of dollars on "features" nobody asked for

I liked and used pocket.

I can't believe how angry people are about an online bookmarking and tagging service integrated into a browser.

I thought light tricks also included SUVs. My figure was supposed to be pickups only, but take it work a huge pinch of salt because I didn't spend very long searching. But yeah either way the point stands :)

Something like 20% of all car sales are trucks.

The implication of course being that a substantial fraction on the entire country, after their weekly 9-5 grind and school run lines to kick back, have a few beers and haul trailers all weekend!

Though I think that's why a lot of people buy trucks, it's the idea that you might be the kind of rugged person who needs a truck, or at least the kind of rugged person for whom a truck is better than a car (even if a van would be superior).

And rugged men haul things (truckers I suppose being the epitome of manliness next to lumberjacks), so you gotta have rowing capacity even if you don't have a boat yet.

If instead of "The internet", whatever that means,

Are you really that stupid?

you go to pretty much any store

let me introduce you to a thing called "the internet" when you can visit stores from the comfort of your chair.

you'll quickly notice that all of the most popular models

Ho do you gauge popularity? Seems there are both kinds on sale, with LiDAR ones being more expensive, on the whole.

sold are lidar models.

You said they don't use lidar, before. Now you're saying lidar is more popular. Please make up your mind.

LiDAR is the newer tech. The first gen used what another poster described as the cockroach algorithm. Second gen used cameras and vision based SLAM. Third gen use lidar.

Funnily enough though Ford managed to adapt the Transit to the e-transit and by all account it's a very good van.

Vans unfortunately don't have the lifestyle connotations of trucks, however.

Modern ones haven't built a map visually in a long time (if ever).

The early ones certainly did, since cheap lidar sensors only became available recently. I'd be surprised if they weren't using range and vision fusion because relocalisation and loop closing is much easier with vision than with range sensing.

The internet says that lidar is newer and better, but vSLAM is still more popular for cost reasons.

The camera is how the mapping works. It's pretty hard to do a good job without one of those.

There's 3kW European ones??

I though they stopped selling those decades ago. It's been 900W for nearly a decade now.

I've got a 1200W wet/dry extractor and it's noticeably more powerful, but those pro ones aren't domestic vacuum cleaners so they are exempt. It's also easy excessive for domestic vacuuming though you can use it for that if you don't mind a huge, heavy and noisy machine with excessive suction.